activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.SI2026

When Vision Meets Graphs: A Survey on Graph Reasoning and Learning

Xinjian Zhao, Wei Pang, Zhixuan Yu +8

Graphs are a fundamental data structure underlying many problems in the natural and social sciences. Over the past decade, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have dominated graph machine…

cs.AI2026

MolEmb: Multimodal Large Language Models Can Be Strong Molecular Embedding Models

Xinjian Zhao, Xiangru Jian, Yaoyao Xu +4

Molecular embedding models can serve as foundational infrastructure for computational chemistry and drug discovery, where reusable vector representations support property predictio…

cs.CL2026

Closed-Loop Bayesian Molecular Inverse Design with Semantic LLM Surrogates

Yaoyao Xu, Xinjian Zhao, Xiaozhuang Song +2

Practical molecular inverse design is rarely a one-shot generation problem; it often takes the form of closed-loop candidate-pool enrichment, where under a limited oracle budget th…

cs.CV2025

The Underappreciated Power of Vision Models for Graph Structural Understanding

Xinjian Zhao, Wei Pang, Zhongkai Xue +6

Graph Neural Networks operate through bottom-up message-passing, fundamentally differing from human visual perception, which intuitively captures global structures first. We invest…

cs.AI2025

AOT*: Efficient Synthesis Planning via LLM-Empowered AND-OR Tree Search

Xiaozhuang Song, Xuanhao Pan, Xinjian Zhao +4

Retrosynthesis planning enables the discovery of viable synthetic routes for target molecules, playing a crucial role in domains like drug discovery and materials design. Multi-ste…

cs.AI2024

Boosting Protein Language Models with Negative Sample Mining

Yaoyao Xu, Xinjian Zhao, Xiaozhuang Song +2

We introduce a pioneering methodology for boosting large language models in the domain of protein representation learning. Our primary contribution lies in the refinement process f…